On Mar 3, 2015, at 3:24 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: > I still think there needs to be quite a lot of work done on APIs and best > common practices in order for applications to do the right thing so this kind > of renumbering event works. Most likely it's going to require a FOSS library > that will act as a middle layer between the application and the network so > applications don't have to talk directly to the POSIX interfaces (which plain > suck and haven't been updated in 15 years or so).
Why? The only case where it will matter is for long-lived connections that can't restart. So your overnight ssh, or your very long download. Any other use will survive the renumbering event because you gave an hour's notice. Deprecated addresses already shouldn't be selected for new connections by the stack--there's no need to modify the application. _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
